Disable Bessel function TLOSS errors in POSIX mode

Andreas Jaeger aj@suse.com
Fri Mar 16 19:46:00 GMT 2012


On 03/16/2012 05:31 PM, Joseph S. Myers wrote:
> No-one commented on my message
> <http://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2012-02/msg00512.html>  about TLOSS
> errors from Bessel functions.  Now that sincos is fixed for all
> floating-point formats, it's possible to make changes for that issue and
> add testcases in the normal way without the tests failing because of
> sincos inaccuracy.  I propose this patch which addresses those nine bugs
> by disabling the TLOSS errors in POSIX mode (the default libm error
> handling mode) the way they are disabled in IEEE mode (so they will still
> occur in SVID and XOPEN modes).
>
> Tested x86 and x86_64 and ulps updated accordingly.

I agree that this is the best approach. The patch is fine.

thanks,
Andreas
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